“La Curandera” and “Bastien and Bastienne,” Feb. 15-16: Native San Antonian Robert Xavier Rodriguez composed “La Curandera” as a companion piece to Mozart's “Bastien and Bastienne,” Richter said. Both tell similar stories about people turning to a curandera (in Rodriguez's piece) or a soothsayer (in the Mozart piece) for help with their romantic travails. The performance will mark the San Antonio premiere of “La Curandera.”

“Orpheus and Eurydice” and “Green Sneakers,” May 10-11: Both pieces were written by renowned composer Ricky Ian Gordon, who is slated to attend, Richter said. Neither has been staged in San Antonio before. “Orpheus” is based on the Greek myth about a man so unmoored by the loss of his wife that he travels to the underworld to retrieve her; “Green Sneakers” is about a man coping with the impending loss of his dying lover to AIDS. Gordon based the latter on his own experience — his partner died in 1996 from the disease.

The New York Times called “Green Sneakers” “a significant contribution to the culture sprung from the AIDS crisis.”

Jesse Blumberg, an up-and-coming baritone who sang “Green Sneakers” in Lincoln Center's “American Songbook” series in April, will be reprising the role here, Richter said.